Hold Your Breath -- A Poem

Hold Your Breath

Cristina Michaels

Hold your breath

Hold your breath

Memorized thought

Patterns

Of

Layered sedimentary stone

Of

Nerves

Fibers delicately woven

Cloths poured onto bones

Lengthens

Lengthen

Upon an endless musical notes

Hold your breath

Hold your breath

Angular structures

Elongate

Angular structure

Plie

Structures bend

Under increased force

Feeding desires

Now breath

Now breath

Clothes become removed

Tissue shredded and resewn

Limbs move

Needled thought

Threaded through a musical note

Becomes a dream

Becomes  dreams

Hold your breath

Hold your breath

Memorized nerve sensations

Memorized disabilities

Hidden

Memorized a paths around the injury

Trailhead past the pain

Erectors

Wreck havoc

Symbolic

Bones become flexible

Becomes broken

Music still plays

Upon

Musical Joints

Adhere

Broken can be told

To

Breath

Breath

My clothes are tissue

Are thoughts

My bones are a dreams

Dreamp’d

By musical notes

The whip controlled with a idea

Patterns of cloth

Material

Muscles stitched

In place

By threads of

Sound

Up stage right

Hold your breath

Hold your breath

Focus

Look and

Find the musical

Notes to

Now breath

Now breath

 FIN